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Apport integration

Friday, December 25th, 2009

So for the last day or two I have been attempting to add support for bug reports from within the application.  In the spirit of open-source, I have searched around and found that Apport seems to be heavily used in Ubuntu, and has clean integration with http://bugs.launchpad.net/, which is my chosen bug tracking system for [...]

Sharing sound between Pulseaudio instances in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

Monday, November 9th, 2009

The goal of this post is to respond to a query about how to synchronize soundcards across several Ubuntu-based computers together using pulseaudio. I will present two methods, demonstrating the GUI tools that are available, before showing how to come up with the manually-edited files. In theory, at the end of this post you will [...]

Not high – just misinformed

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Recently, I saw the following on the cover of a computer magazine, which had the latest release of ‘Ubuntu‘ on it’s monthly DVD: Now, apart from the general ‘hype’ around anything that’s meant to be able to ‘kill’ or be a ‘better’ alternative to Microsoft’s latest operating system, the idea that this particular version/distribution of [...]